One can understand why facts might be hard to come by while reporting on Vice President Joe Biden’s economic stimulus claims, but The Hill’s Michael O’Brien makes two easy errors in his June 2nd article. First he calls it the “$787 billion” stimulus bill. That was once true … nut not anyomore. According to revised accounting by the Congressional Budget Office released this January, because the stimulus failed to keep unemployment below 8% as promised, it will end up costing $862 billion thanks to increased food stamp and unemployment payments.

O’Brien’s second factual error comes three paragraphs later when … Continue Reading

Covering Vice President Biden’s “Middle Class Task Force” meeting in the Washington Post, reporter Michael Fletcher rightly points out the problem that ever-rising college costs are creating for middle class families:

Pointing out that the cost of a four-year college education has more than doubled in the same time that middle class incomes have crept up by just 10 percent, Biden said that an unprecedented effort is being mounted to address the growing gap…”This is something we are genuinely, genuinely committed to changing.”

The Post story then reviews the Obama administration’s plans to expand and reform federal subsidy programs for college … Continue Reading